Ap Artilce bashes GA

"Roger (K8RI)" wrote in message
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An AP article that starts out

"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The federal government has taken billions of
dollars from the taxes and fees paid by airline passengers every time
they fly and awarded it to small airports used mainly by private
pilots and globe-trotting corporate executives." gives a very negative
spin to GA and our opposition to "User fees"

The article is available on the excite site, but may require free
registration to read.

http://money.excite.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_...=ap-d8oh58q00&

They have just enough facts mixed with the misinformation to make it
dangerously misleading.


On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:14:07 -0700, "BT" wrote
in :

sounds like a letter to the editor writing campaign in the offing..
let all those people know that GA aircraft also contribute to the same fund
through additional fuel taxes on aviation fuel and that a disproportionate
amount of dollars spent from the fund go to large "airline hub" airports and
not the small GA airport, and also that the fund contributes to the FAA
"general fund" to maintain ATC and aids to radio navigation.

BT (sorry roger, meant to hit reply to group)


GA is under attack by the airlines with all the unrestrained zeal and
mendacity of a Karl Rove campaign to usurp the US Constitution. Make
no mistake.

It is part of the job of government to maintain the nation's
transportation infrastructure. To fail to fund the needs of all
airports would weaken our nation. What a biased and shortsighted
point of view for a journalist to take.

I'll have to give the AP article a read.